A site currently promoting awareness and debate of how the poorest students in Scotland face the highest government debts: "seems to return to this issue again and again…. " Michael Russell, former Cabinet Secretary for Education, April 2014

4,000 views, but increased debt for the poorest still not much news in Scotland

August 5, 2014

This blog has just hit 4,000 views since it was set up last summer. A few hundred of these seem more likely to have been bots than real visitors (unless international interest in Scottish student debt is higher than I’d expect). But that’s still a step towards raising the profile of student grant and debt as issues, against the domination of tuition fees as the student funding issue of our time, in Scotland at least.

However, the limited impact of the news that students’ annual borrowing in Scotland has recently risen by well over 50% in a single year suggests that there’s still some way to go before we achieve the better debate hoped for here …